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Review of Long Hidden

| April 18, 2018

It’s been on my to-read list for quite some time, but I finally have read and reviewed Long Hidden, edited by Rose Fox and Daniel José Older. It’s an anthology of 27 alternate history speculative fiction stories featuring marginalized characters. If you’re curious to see what I thought of it, check out my review at Mad Scientist Journal!

2018 Young Explorer’s Adventure Guide now available!

| December 12, 2017

The 2018 Young Explorer’s Adventure Guide is now available, including my story, “Far From Home.” This is my second year with a story in this fantastic anthology of short stories for younger readers, and I’m so excited to be sharing the table of contents with a number of other writers who are also returning for […]

Review of Cassilda’s Song

| July 5, 2017

I’ve got a new review up at Mad Scientist Journal today, this time for Cassilda’s Song, an anthology of 18 stories in the King in Yellow mythos by women authors. Check out my review to learn more about it!

Review of Behind the Mask

| June 7, 2017

My review of the Behind the Mask anthology is up today at Mad Scientist Journal. If you like super hero stories that aren’t all about the knock-down, drag-out fights, you’re likely to love this one! Check out my review here!

Untethered Authors Disclose Their Story Inspirations for the Anthology (two involve Clippy!)

| October 17, 2016

Where do authors get their story ideas, anyway? In honor of the book release for Untethered: A Magic iPhone Anthology, four authors divulge their inspirations. Untethered: A Magic iPhone Anthology is a fictional collection of twenty stories about the intersection of magic and tech, so real life phone interaction must have meant something, right? Maybe. […]

Our First Kickstarter

| February 15, 2014

Mad Scientist Journal, which I help to edit, has just launched our first Kickstarter. We’ll be putting together an anthology of first-person accounts from residents of and visitors to the Miskatonic Valley. The stories will be a little on the creepy side, full of the Lovecraftian horrors for which Arkham and the Miskatonic Valley are […]

Review of Gaslight Arcanum

| January 19, 2012

Nevermet Press has started a new feature, Clockwork Reviews, and the first review up is by yours truly! I reviewed Gaslight Arcanum, which is an anthology of stories where Sherlock Holmes meets the supernatural.  So pop on over to the site to check out my review! I’ll have other reviews that will appear there in the […]

Cobalt City Dark Carnival is available!

| November 30, 2011

Cobalt City Dark Carnival has been published, and you can order it here! (Update 2/3/2025: Link no longer viable.) I have 1 1/5 stories in this anthology. Yeah, you read that right. First, I wrote “Unexpected Sparx,” featuring Kara Sparx and Lumien. Then, I was a part of a five-author collaborative project to write “Carnival […]

Cobalt City: Dark Carnival

| June 1, 2011

I got word today that my short story, “Unexpected Sparx,” has been accepted for the Cobalt City: Dark Carnival anthology, which is due out this fall. The anthology is still accepting submissions, and you can find out more here. There are a lot of really great characters that still are waiting for their stories to […]